WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 13, 2023

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 6:26pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	♥ 8:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy! I have a feeling tonight will be awesome
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Krys O.: Hello!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Imaginos and Krys O!
	♥ 9:01pm Pauly from Clifton: Hey Austin, gang!
	♥ 9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Ahoy, Keys O.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Heather Z: I'm tuned in and excited for the show!!
	9:01pm Mr. X: Mutually mutating.
	♥ 9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 Mutation seems to be the thing.
	♥ 9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Equestrian Statue?
	9:05pm Kat in the chat: Hello all!
	9:07pm Kat in the chat: Quite a résumé there
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: Oh: I should add that this interview is uncensored. Steve does like to casually curse.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:07 Yeah. For a long time, he was really sort of humble about his early career, and didn't talk much about it except to say, "Oh, I worked at the BBC." Only upon talking to him more does he divulge some of the JUICY stories.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: This is all that is left of the TV Special; it was not saved, sadly. youtu.be...
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: "Ouch!"
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Krys O.: Peter Cook was part of Private Eye.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:17 That's right!
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Krys O.: Besides having a few books on Pete and Dud, I used to subscribe to a comedy fanzine called Kettering--The Magazine for Elderly British Comedy.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:19 OOOOOOH! Now that is my cup of English Tea!
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Lady Madonna (Live)" by "The Bob Kerr Whoopee Band" Steve related to me, fondly, that this was one of his favorite bands, and he attended as many of theirs shows in the late 60's / early 70's. He specifically asked for this cover version of by the group.
	♥ 9:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder if his time with early BBC was an inspiration for Big Time.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:21 He is 100% Blank Reg.
	♥ 9:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 No argument there. I also wonder if Edison Carter got his name from Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:23 Hmmmmmm... good question! Steve does seem to be a fan of that particular tune.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 I still have my Kettering issues! Oh, and Rachel Carson's quote about recurring themes of nature helped me through some rough times
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:23 She is fascinating. I've been wanting to learn more about her, since I started on this audio essay.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:23 I'll have to see if I can track down some back issues. We sell a lot of old magazines through our store.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: A good portion of the Late Night Line-Up shows did not survive into the modern age. No recordings of these shows that Steve made exist, unfortunately. But... who can say... maybe they're in a basement somewhere?
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 BBC were terrible about archives. :(
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Krys O.: All You Need is Love....
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:27 I can imagine that shows about "The Environment" were not on the "save" list, for some reason.
	9:28pm Mr. X: ↳ Krys O. @9:27 All those missing Dr. Who episodes...utterly tragic!
	♥ 9:28pm Pauly from Clifton: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 Another visionary environmentalist is Lester R. Brown. One of the first to sound the alarm about water becoming more valuable and scarce in the future. Jersey boy and rutgers alumnus!
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Pauly from Clifton @9:28 Oooo! Thanks for the tip. I'm unfamiliar!
	♥ 9:31pm Pauly from Clifton: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 You're welcome! His prescience gains currency daily.
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:28 Seems like Dr. Who got off pretty easy, compared to some shows.
	♥ 9:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Krys O. @9:27 Back in the early 2000s they asked anyone who had taped old shows to send in copies, giving them impunity from piracy in order to replace lost archives
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Krys O.: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:32 Yup, heard about that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Krys O.: Have to sign off for bed. Will check out the rest in the archives. Thanks and take care!
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:34 Sleep well!
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: Steve speaks pretty highly of Status Quo, and it seems to be a band that he's enjoyed throughout his life. By his request: you can't play enough Status Quo.
	9:40pm ramencity: I'm clocking in to cover his shift!
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:40 Hey! You made it!
	9:40pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Paper Plane" by "Status Quo" The one-hit wonder band that did "Pictures of Matchstick Men."
	♥ 9:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ ramencity @9:40 Ahoy! Nice to see you
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:40 I think they were a one-hit wonder in the US. In the UK, they were very well known, and have a LOT of albums. I'm very fond of their first album, but some of their early 70's albums are really doing it for me lately.
	♥ 9:42pm Pauly from Clifton: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Such a great band! Can't believe they did not get more traction in the States. If it wasn't for Kerrang I would have never heard of them.
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Pauly from Clifton @9:42 I was very late to the game, but... there's no expiration date on good tunes.
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: "We better get to the bar and start thinking." I LOVE that quote.
	♥ 9:43pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Pauly from Clifton @9:42 They do sound awesome.
	♥ 9:43pm Pauly from Clifton: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Well said! I'm sorry but I'm stealing that phrase.
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: Steve seems to be a bit of an art nerd; he seems to know a fair amount about obscure artists.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Pauly from Clifton @9:43 I've used it several times since he said it to me!
	9:48pm Kat in the chat: Oh this one is the best
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: Another song Steve SPECIFICALLY requested. He couldn't recall the name, so he sent me some lyrics to make sure I had the right track. This album sounds like one of Steve's faves from his 20's.
	♥ 9:48pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Intro and Outro. Love it. Inspired Paranoimia extended version
	♥ 9:49pm Pauly from Clifton: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:43 Right? Again, there are bands like Budgie and Diamond head that really rocked and barely made a ripple across the pond.
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Austin Rich: "Rawlinson's on Trombone." That'll be relevant, later...
	9:51pm Kat in the chat: I’m glad I’m old enough to get most of the jokes there
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:51 Yeah... I was thinking about how it's probably largely gibberish to Millennials.
	9:54pm ramencity: I was about to say, "Didn't the guitarist out of Budgie just die?" But it was the Groundhogs... (Tony McPhee)
	9:55pm Mr Fab: Hey gang! Had dinner with the Fab fam. Just in time for the Bonzo content.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:55 Yay!
	9:57pm Mr Fab: “He was in a coffin. With the lid down. Which was fortunate, because he was naked.” Ohmigawd, has anyone written a Viv Stanshall biography?
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:57 Woah. That's a brilliant idea! We should get on writing the script.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: I just imagine a sort of "Withnal & I" scene as Steve describes all of this.
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm Austin Rich: Again, more Steve requests. He is a big AC/DC fan, and said no show would be complete without some.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: In one e-mail, he mentioned that he and his wife would listen to Status Quo and AC/DC as they were "parenting."
	♥ 10:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I can see Breughal and Mahler jamming to this in their van
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Austin Rich: During one call, he stopped the conversation dead when he realized we were DJs, and told me, in all seriousness, that I needed to play more Pink Floyd. (He knew nothing of my show, but he was sure I needed to play more Pink Floyd.)
	10:03pm Mr Fab: Sir Henry at Rawlinson End: “It’s impossible to do justice,” said the critic Nigel Andrews, “to the film’s arrant and quite unique lunacy.”
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:03 It's very, very English. And free on YouTube, if you want a no-frills version.
	♥ 10:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Steve has great taste
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Aitch: Hope not too late to mutate
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @10:11 Never too late for Aitch! Thanks for joining us!
	10:14pm squidbeak: Listening at work, AR, what a great interview!
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ squidbeak @10:14 Ah, thanks for saying so, squidbeak! I had a lot of fun do the calls, and editing!
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: Steve's comment about "dressing scruffy" is funny. He's usually fairly well groomed, but certainly, DOES NOT wear suits. Mostly, t-shirts and jeans.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: Colin Wilson is also associated with the Lovecraft scene.
	10:16pm Mike Rogers: Hi Austin Rich san & Heather Zajkowski san!
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:16 Mike Rogers! Thanks! Your AI did a great show last night!
	♥ 10:18pm Pauly from Clifton: As a 17-year-old,I saw "Lifeforce" in the theatre and found it excellent.
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Pauly from Clifton @10:18 Yeah, I think it's better than Colin Wilson says. But, you know... you can't trust writers about their own work.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: Rocky & Annabel, who directed the original Max Headroom telefilm, and who directed the UK Max Headroom TV Show, also directed the 80's Super Mario Bros. movie.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: I wanna read the "Screwed Up" Americanized scripts that weren't working, before they brought on Steve. I have a feeling they would be TERRIBLE... in an interesting way.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: So many of Steve's solutions are, "Go to the pub and think about it."
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: My theory is that, since Steve proved that he could write one script in three days, that ABC expected ALL Max Headroom scripts to take three days to write. Which led to some unrealistic production schedules.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: Michael has become a bit of a pen pal for both Heather and I, too. He's delightful, and has recorded a number of commentary tracks with us, on the episodes that he wrote.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: Michael Cassutt has done mostly genre fiction TV writing in his life, and most recently worked on "Foundation." But his dirty secret: He worked on 90210 for years, and has been considered the source of the "dark" moments on that show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: We've had so many technical difficulties talking to Steve, I believe that computers won't cooperate with him.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: Steve says, "Far too much drinking, probably." He was having some Old Speckled Hen's while he chatted with us.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: More Steve requests. He explicitly asked me to play more Pink Floyd, on this show, and generally.
	♥ 10:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Great interview
	10:35pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 My niece dismisses Pink Floyd as "stoner music."
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:35 I'm very fond of their early work, but as a teen, I absolutely listened to them a bunch, all through their catalog.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: In every call we've had, Steve has warned us about how bad the "suits" are.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: (Here's that conversation I mentioned, when I ran it on Sheena's last year: wfmu.org...)
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:35 Thank you. I spent a fair amount of time on the scripts.
	♥ 10:39pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 It shows.
	♥ 10:43pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 Speaking of scripts, I'm looking forward to doing a reading sometime in July
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: Steve listened to my first edit of the show, and really appreciated all the background music and audio samples and asides. He saw it a little like how Max drops pop culture references on the show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:43 Yes!
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: Martin Newell - The Cleaners From Venus - is friends with Steve, and Martin introduced us to Steve.
	♥ 10:47pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Nowadays, Max Headroom would basically be reality tv
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: Since we've been friends, he's been involved with two different TV projects, and he's also still working on his novel about AI.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Cocktails For Two" by "The Bob Kerr Whoopee Band" The older I get, the more I think this is one of the greatest songs ever recorded.
	10:55pm Kat in the chat: Really excellent show, Austin!
	♥ 10:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 I couldn't agree more
	10:55pm Mr. X: Top notch edutainment! Thanks for the show tonight, Austin.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in the chat @10:55 Thanks! I had fun putting it together. (I probably did more research for this than anything I wrote in college.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: Again: Steve has made so much about being a Status Quo fan. You gotta play another one, right?
	♥ 10:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 Exactly
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Softer Ride" by "Status Quo" This is, essentially, what's blasting out of the Big Time bus when Blank Reg has to drive across town, and they're off air.
	♥ 10:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:58 I can see that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: We'll go a little over, but the interview has been fully played. But yeah, I've got some more...
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Aitch: Lurked, working, v interesting. We got Max down here
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: Lurking & Working: The Sheena's Listener Story!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Aitch: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 The only witness was the cat...
	♥ 11:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Awesome crowd
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Aitch: Let there be rock!
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Aitch: a long way to the shop if you wanna sausage roll as sung locally
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @11:03 Oh, man. I know that pain!
	♥ 11:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Started with amazing and ended with spectacular
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm Austin Rich: There's a local coffee shop that has sausage sandwiches that I think about... but you gotta walk down there...
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @11:04 Ahhhh. Thanks! You are sweet.
	♥ 11:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @11:05 Thank you, too.
	♥ 11:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @11:05 Looking forward to working with you
	🎸 ♥ 11:08pm Aitch: Cheers Austin
	🎸 ♥ 11:08pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Closing with dog stuff always plays well with dog peeps!
	🎸 ♥ 11:09pm Austin Rich: And some nice, post-show transition music. Thanks Sheena!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 13, 2023

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Television Man "Television Man"
The Talking Heads	Television Man "Television Man" by "The Talking Heads"	Little Creatures	Sire Records	1985	0:00:32 (Pop-up)
Workin' At The Beeb "Workin' At The Beeb"
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Steve Roberts Interview	The Steve Roberts Interview	Mid-Valley Mutations	2023	0:06:38 (Pop-up)
The Bob Kerr Whoopee Band	Lady Madonna (Live)	Bob Kerr's Woopee Band Live at the Half Moon, Putney 1990	YouTube.com	1990	0:19:54 (Pop-up)
"Rock & Roll" & "The Environment" ""Rock & Roll" & "The Environment""
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Steve Roberts Interview	The Steve Roberts Interview	Mid-Valley Mutations	2023	0:22:05 (Pop-up)
Status Quo	Paper Plane "Paper Plane" by "Status Quo"	Piledriver	IBC Studios	1972	0:38:55 (Pop-up)
"The Night We Didn't Have A Program," "The 'C' Word" & "Rawlinson's End"
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Steve Roberts Interview	The Steve Roberts Interview	Mid-Valley Mutations	2023	0:41:53 (Pop-up)
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band	The Intro and the Outro	Gorilla	Liberty Records	1967	0:47:29 (Pop-up)
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Steve Roberts Interview	The Steve Roberts Interview	Mid-Valley Mutations	2023	0:50:33 (Pop-up)
AC/DC	Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap	Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap	Atlantic Records	1976	0:59:59 (Pop-up)
Status Quo	Good Thinking, Batman "Good Thinking, Batman" by "Status Quo"	Tune To The Music	Pye Records	1972	1:04:09 (Pop-up)
20 Minutes Into The Future "20 Minutes Into The Future"
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Steve Roberts Interview	The Steve Roberts Interview	Mid-Valley Mutations	2023	1:09:22 (Pop-up)
Pink Floyd	Have A Cigar "Have A Cigar" by "Pink Floyd"	Wish You Were Here	Harvest	1975	1:32:40 (Pop-up)
The End of Max, and More Hollywood Stories
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Steve Roberts Interview	The Steve Roberts Interview	Mid-Valley Mutations	2023	1:35:11 (Pop-up)
The Mothers of Invention	Trouble Every Day	Freak Out!	Verve Records	1966	1:36:02 (Pop-up)
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Steve Roberts Interview	The Steve Roberts Interview	Mid-Valley Mutations	2023	1:40:04 (Pop-up)
The Bob Kerr Whoopee Band	Cocktails For Two	Keeping Up With The Spike Jones's	Whoopee Records	1989	1:54:08 (Pop-up)
Status Quo	Softer Ride "Softer Ride" by "Status Quo"	Hello!	Vertigo Records	1973	1:56:26 (Pop-up)
The Eleven-SixtyFours	Big Time Television Theme [Instrumental]	Smothered, Covered, Chunked & Capped EP	WTBC Records	2021	2:00:33 (Pop-up)
Enjoy It While You Can "Enjoy It While You Can"
AC/DC	It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll)	T.N.T.	Albert Records	1975	2:03:23 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 6:26pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	♥ 8:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy! I have a feeling tonight will be awesome
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Krys O.: Hello!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Imaginos and Krys O!
	♥ 9:01pm Pauly from Clifton: Hey Austin, gang!
	♥ 9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Ahoy, Keys O.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Heather Z: I'm tuned in and excited for the show!!
	9:01pm Mr. X: Mutually mutating.
	♥ 9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 Mutation seems to be the thing.
	♥ 9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Equestrian Statue?
	9:05pm Kat in the chat: Hello all!
	9:07pm Kat in the chat: Quite a résumé there
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: Oh: I should add that this interview is uncensored. Steve does like to casually curse.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:07 Yeah. For a long time, he was really sort of humble about his early career, and didn't talk much about it except to say, "Oh, I worked at the BBC." Only upon talking to him more does he divulge some of the JUICY stories.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: This is all that is left of the TV Special; it was not saved, sadly. youtu.be...
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: "Ouch!"
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Krys O.: Peter Cook was part of Private Eye.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:17 That's right!
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Krys O.: Besides having a few books on Pete and Dud, I used to subscribe to a comedy fanzine called Kettering--The Magazine for Elderly British Comedy.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:19 OOOOOOH! Now that is my cup of English Tea!
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Lady Madonna (Live)" by "The Bob Kerr Whoopee Band" Steve related to me, fondly, that this was one of his favorite bands, and he attended as many of theirs shows in the late 60's / early 70's. He specifically asked for this cover version of by the group.
	♥ 9:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder if his time with early BBC was an inspiration for Big Time.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:21 He is 100% Blank Reg.
	♥ 9:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 No argument there. I also wonder if Edison Carter got his name from Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:23 Hmmmmmm... good question! Steve does seem to be a fan of that particular tune.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 I still have my Kettering issues! Oh, and Rachel Carson's quote about recurring themes of nature helped me through some rough times
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:23 She is fascinating. I've been wanting to learn more about her, since I started on this audio essay.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:23 I'll have to see if I can track down some back issues. We sell a lot of old magazines through our store.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: A good portion of the Late Night Line-Up shows did not survive into the modern age. No recordings of these shows that Steve made exist, unfortunately. But... who can say... maybe they're in a basement somewhere?
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 BBC were terrible about archives. :(
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Krys O.: All You Need is Love....
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:27 I can imagine that shows about "The Environment" were not on the "save" list, for some reason.
	9:28pm Mr. X: ↳ Krys O. @9:27 All those missing Dr. Who episodes...utterly tragic!
	♥ 9:28pm Pauly from Clifton: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 Another visionary environmentalist is Lester R. Brown. One of the first to sound the alarm about water becoming more valuable and scarce in the future. Jersey boy and rutgers alumnus!
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Pauly from Clifton @9:28 Oooo! Thanks for the tip. I'm unfamiliar!
	♥ 9:31pm Pauly from Clifton: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 You're welcome! His prescience gains currency daily.
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:28 Seems like Dr. Who got off pretty easy, compared to some shows.
	♥ 9:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Krys O. @9:27 Back in the early 2000s they asked anyone who had taped old shows to send in copies, giving them impunity from piracy in order to replace lost archives
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Krys O.: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:32 Yup, heard about that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Krys O.: Have to sign off for bed. Will check out the rest in the archives. Thanks and take care!
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:34 Sleep well!
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: Steve speaks pretty highly of Status Quo, and it seems to be a band that he's enjoyed throughout his life. By his request: you can't play enough Status Quo.
	9:40pm ramencity: I'm clocking in to cover his shift!
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:40 Hey! You made it!
	9:40pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Paper Plane" by "Status Quo" The one-hit wonder band that did "Pictures of Matchstick Men."
	♥ 9:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ ramencity @9:40 Ahoy! Nice to see you
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:40 I think they were a one-hit wonder in the US. In the UK, they were very well known, and have a LOT of albums. I'm very fond of their first album, but some of their early 70's albums are really doing it for me lately.
	♥ 9:42pm Pauly from Clifton: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Such a great band! Can't believe they did not get more traction in the States. If it wasn't for Kerrang I would have never heard of them.
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Pauly from Clifton @9:42 I was very late to the game, but... there's no expiration date on good tunes.
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: "We better get to the bar and start thinking." I LOVE that quote.
	♥ 9:43pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Pauly from Clifton @9:42 They do sound awesome.
	♥ 9:43pm Pauly from Clifton: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Well said! I'm sorry but I'm stealing that phrase.
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: Steve seems to be a bit of an art nerd; he seems to know a fair amount about obscure artists.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Pauly from Clifton @9:43 I've used it several times since he said it to me!
	9:48pm Kat in the chat: Oh this one is the best
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: Another song Steve SPECIFICALLY requested. He couldn't recall the name, so he sent me some lyrics to make sure I had the right track. This album sounds like one of Steve's faves from his 20's.
	♥ 9:48pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Intro and Outro. Love it. Inspired Paranoimia extended version
	♥ 9:49pm Pauly from Clifton: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:43 Right? Again, there are bands like Budgie and Diamond head that really rocked and barely made a ripple across the pond.
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Austin Rich: "Rawlinson's on Trombone." That'll be relevant, later...
	9:51pm Kat in the chat: I’m glad I’m old enough to get most of the jokes there
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:51 Yeah... I was thinking about how it's probably largely gibberish to Millennials.
	9:54pm ramencity: I was about to say, "Didn't the guitarist out of Budgie just die?" But it was the Groundhogs... (Tony McPhee)
	9:55pm Mr Fab: Hey gang! Had dinner with the Fab fam. Just in time for the Bonzo content.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:55 Yay!
	9:57pm Mr Fab: “He was in a coffin. With the lid down. Which was fortunate, because he was naked.” Ohmigawd, has anyone written a Viv Stanshall biography?
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:57 Woah. That's a brilliant idea! We should get on writing the script.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: I just imagine a sort of "Withnal & I" scene as Steve describes all of this.
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm Austin Rich: Again, more Steve requests. He is a big AC/DC fan, and said no show would be complete without some.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: In one e-mail, he mentioned that he and his wife would listen to Status Quo and AC/DC as they were "parenting."
	♥ 10:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I can see Breughal and Mahler jamming to this in their van
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Austin Rich: During one call, he stopped the conversation dead when he realized we were DJs, and told me, in all seriousness, that I needed to play more Pink Floyd. (He knew nothing of my show, but he was sure I needed to play more Pink Floyd.)
	10:03pm Mr Fab: Sir Henry at Rawlinson End: “It’s impossible to do justice,” said the critic Nigel Andrews, “to the film’s arrant and quite unique lunacy.”
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:03 It's very, very English. And free on YouTube, if you want a no-frills version.
	♥ 10:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Steve has great taste
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Aitch: Hope not too late to mutate
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @10:11 Never too late for Aitch! Thanks for joining us!
	10:14pm squidbeak: Listening at work, AR, what a great interview!
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ squidbeak @10:14 Ah, thanks for saying so, squidbeak! I had a lot of fun do the calls, and editing!
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: Steve's comment about "dressing scruffy" is funny. He's usually fairly well groomed, but certainly, DOES NOT wear suits. Mostly, t-shirts and jeans.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: Colin Wilson is also associated with the Lovecraft scene.
	10:16pm Mike Rogers: Hi Austin Rich san & Heather Zajkowski san!
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:16 Mike Rogers! Thanks! Your AI did a great show last night!
	♥ 10:18pm Pauly from Clifton: As a 17-year-old,I saw "Lifeforce" in the theatre and found it excellent.
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Pauly from Clifton @10:18 Yeah, I think it's better than Colin Wilson says. But, you know... you can't trust writers about their own work.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: Rocky & Annabel, who directed the original Max Headroom telefilm, and who directed the UK Max Headroom TV Show, also directed the 80's Super Mario Bros. movie.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: I wanna read the "Screwed Up" Americanized scripts that weren't working, before they brought on Steve. I have a feeling they would be TERRIBLE... in an interesting way.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: So many of Steve's solutions are, "Go to the pub and think about it."
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: My theory is that, since Steve proved that he could write one script in three days, that ABC expected ALL Max Headroom scripts to take three days to write. Which led to some unrealistic production schedules.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: Michael has become a bit of a pen pal for both Heather and I, too. He's delightful, and has recorded a number of commentary tracks with us, on the episodes that he wrote.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: Michael Cassutt has done mostly genre fiction TV writing in his life, and most recently worked on "Foundation." But his dirty secret: He worked on 90210 for years, and has been considered the source of the "dark" moments on that show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: We've had so many technical difficulties talking to Steve, I believe that computers won't cooperate with him.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: Steve says, "Far too much drinking, probably." He was having some Old Speckled Hen's while he chatted with us.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: More Steve requests. He explicitly asked me to play more Pink Floyd, on this show, and generally.
	♥ 10:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Great interview
	10:35pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 My niece dismisses Pink Floyd as "stoner music."
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:35 I'm very fond of their early work, but as a teen, I absolutely listened to them a bunch, all through their catalog.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: In every call we've had, Steve has warned us about how bad the "suits" are.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: (Here's that conversation I mentioned, when I ran it on Sheena's last year: wfmu.org...)
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:35 Thank you. I spent a fair amount of time on the scripts.
	♥ 10:39pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 It shows.
	♥ 10:43pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 Speaking of scripts, I'm looking forward to doing a reading sometime in July
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: Steve listened to my first edit of the show, and really appreciated all the background music and audio samples and asides. He saw it a little like how Max drops pop culture references on the show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:43 Yes!
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: Martin Newell - The Cleaners From Venus - is friends with Steve, and Martin introduced us to Steve.
	♥ 10:47pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Nowadays, Max Headroom would basically be reality tv
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: Since we've been friends, he's been involved with two different TV projects, and he's also still working on his novel about AI.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Cocktails For Two" by "The Bob Kerr Whoopee Band" The older I get, the more I think this is one of the greatest songs ever recorded.
	10:55pm Kat in the chat: Really excellent show, Austin!
	♥ 10:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 I couldn't agree more
	10:55pm Mr. X: Top notch edutainment! Thanks for the show tonight, Austin.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in the chat @10:55 Thanks! I had fun putting it together. (I probably did more research for this than anything I wrote in college.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: Again: Steve has made so much about being a Status Quo fan. You gotta play another one, right?
	♥ 10:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 Exactly
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Softer Ride" by "Status Quo" This is, essentially, what's blasting out of the Big Time bus when Blank Reg has to drive across town, and they're off air.
	♥ 10:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:58 I can see that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: We'll go a little over, but the interview has been fully played. But yeah, I've got some more...
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Aitch: Lurked, working, v interesting. We got Max down here
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: Lurking & Working: The Sheena's Listener Story!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Aitch: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 The only witness was the cat...
	♥ 11:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Awesome crowd
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Aitch: Let there be rock!
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Aitch: a long way to the shop if you wanna sausage roll as sung locally
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @11:03 Oh, man. I know that pain!
	♥ 11:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Started with amazing and ended with spectacular
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm Austin Rich: There's a local coffee shop that has sausage sandwiches that I think about... but you gotta walk down there...
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @11:04 Ahhhh. Thanks! You are sweet.
	♥ 11:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @11:05 Thank you, too.
	♥ 11:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @11:05 Looking forward to working with you
	🎸 ♥ 11:08pm Aitch: Cheers Austin
	🎸 ♥ 11:08pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Closing with dog stuff always plays well with dog peeps!
	🎸 ♥ 11:09pm Austin Rich: And some nice, post-show transition music. Thanks Sheena!

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